Openwhisk Catalog
This openwhisk-catalog maintains the package catalogs of openwhisk. In OpenWhisk, the catalog of packages gives you an easy way to enhance your app with useful capabilities, and to access external services in the ecosystem. Examples of external services that are OpenWhisk-enabled include IBM Watson API, the Weather Company, Slack, and GitHub.system packages and sample packages.
The catalog is available as packages in the /whisk.system namespace. See Browsing packages
for information about how to browse the catalog by using the command line tool.
How to install openWhisk-catalog
Pre-requisites
- openwhisk is installed.
- Environment variable
OPENWHISK_HOMEis configured as the path toopenwhisksource code directory.
Install openwhisk-catalog
We should be able to run the script installCatalog.sh to install the catalog like:
./installCatalog.sh [catalog_auth_key] [api_host]
The first argument catalog_auth_key, defines the secret key used to authenticate the openwhisk
service. The second argument api_host, determines the location, where the openwhisk edge host is running,
in the format of IP or hostname.
Existing packages in catalog
| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| /whisk.system/github | offers a convenient way to use the GitHub APIs. |
| /whisk.system/slack | offers a convenient way to use the Slack APIs. |
| /whisk.system/watson-translator | Package for text translation and language identification |
| /whisk.system/watson-speechToText | Package to convert speech into text |
| /whisk.system/watson-textToSpeech | Package to convert text into speech |
| /whisk.system/weather | Services from the Weather Company Data for IBM Bluemix API |
| /whisk.system/websocket | Package to send messages to Web Socket server |
How to create packages
If you want to create your own packages, openwhisk-package-template is a good package creation template to help you build, test and integrate new packages.
For more details about how to use these packages, you can go to the README.md under each package folder.